Bloomberg Tiffany & Co. is hoping its customers will pay $1,000 for a tin can. Well, it’s not a real tin can—it just looks like one. The container is actually made of sterling silver and vermeil, with a touch of Tiffany’s signature robin’s-egg blue in an enamel accent. This is Tiffany, after all. The can is one item in a ...

Bloomberg UK retail sales fell the most in seven months in October, indicating continued caution among consumers just before the crucial Christmas shopping season. The British Retail Consortium said sales fell 1 percent on a like-for-like basis and were up just 0.2 percent in total terms. In a separate report, Barclaycard said annual growth in household spending slowed to 2.4 ...

Bloomberg Etsy Inc. kept its word to investors and eked out a small boost in its growth rate by luring more shoppers and getting them to spend more on its site for unique, small-batch goods. Gross merchandise sales, the total value of goods that pass through Etsy’s platforms, grew 13 percent to $766.4 million in the third quarter—bigger than the ...